BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has pulled its funding for programmes in army-ruled Myanmar, blaming travel and other restrictions imposed by the junta, the Fund said on Friday.
The Fund, which agreed in August 2004 to spend nearly $100 million over 5 years fighting all three diseases in Myanmar, said its decision was regrettable given the serious epidemics threatening the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
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